6-hour layover in Chicago. Amtrak layovers are the exact opposite of airport layovers, since you’re downtown. Unless the weather is bad, I’ll go for a ride on Divvy along the river and along Lake Michigan.

Leg 8:
Train 58 — City of New Orleans
Wednesday, May 23 — 1:45 pm — New Orleans, Louisiana
Dinner on the City of New Orleans. Tennessee will be state #40.
Wednesday, May 23 — 10:20 pm — Memphis, Tennessee
406 miles
8 hours, 35 minutes

Night 17 in Memphis. It’s a huge coincidence that I’ll be arriving in Memphis the day that Explore Bike Share is launched! I’ll bike west across the Mississippi, and Arkansas will be state #41.

After my Amtrak Adventure, I will have visited 41 out of 50 states (or 82%). In the map above, the states I’ve been to are in yellow, while the states that I haven’t are in grey. Additionally, I still have yet to visit Alaska and Hawaii.